Could freezing winter weather lead to fewer bugs this summer?

The bad news: The East Coast has been freezing the past few days. The good news: fewer insects could be bugging you this summer.

But not necessarily.

Experts say that insects like mosquitoes and ticks will not be obliterated.

“They’re going to get through this. They are going to make it because they have experienced these kinds of conditions before, and they don’t get wiped out. Maybe we’ll get a little suppression of ticks, but we’ll see,” Susan Paskewitz, chair of the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Entomology told Popular Science.

Multiple factors go into whether the bugs will survive. It depends on how cold the temperatures get and whether you get a lot of snow.